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Friday, July 31, 2015

Back in March, I wrote a post about a simplified method to use Syntax Highlighter in Blogger posts. The method utilizes a script I wrote so that I don't have to directly modify the html in a post (Working with Syntax Highlighter in Blogger Simplified). One of the issues I have run into with various scripts that have been posted, mine included, is the handling of special characters in the script. In certain conditions you need to look for an angle bracket or an ampersand using your script, and those special characters will break the Blogger parser when you attempt to add them directly in your script. In those examples, again, mine included, the special characters in the script have been replaced with their entity codes (see references below). For example, you can't simply add "<br>'.replace('<br/><br/>');" in a Blogger script.

After I posted that, I had a realization that you can simplify that condition, and future situations surrounding the use of Javascript in Blogger. Well, I finally got around to doing a quick test, and it seems to work without issue.